Spaceflights

No.

Mission

Position

Time

Duration

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Total

Additional information

Graduated from Kachinsk Higher Military Pilot
School, 1970; graduated from test pilot school in Zhukovsky, 1977; graduated
from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1980; civilian test pilot for the Air Force
Ministry; remarried to cosmonaut Tamara
Zakharova; was selected as cosmonaut on
02.09.1985 (LII-4);
OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 9/85 - 1987; after the
end of the Buran program he served again as test pilot and became 1999
Director, test pilot school of
LII, named after Mikhail M. Gromov; he died of heart
failure during work.